The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

and thsre were classes Of freight which
, the road did not expect to carry. The
! present through rates had been made
by the roads In conference, and they
were greatly increased over the former
rates. The basis Of rates between the
East and way points near the Pacific
Coast has been the through rates to
San Francisco and local rates back.
added together, the total being not un-
reasonable.
sutton s Cos. Clipper Line protested
!. against the course Of the railroads. In
order to break down ocean traffic they
had carried through freight at a loss,
which was made up in the way traffic.
Geo. Gray, for the Northern Pacific,
filed petition similar to that of the
Southern Pacific He said the Canada
Pacific was taking all their business.
s. s. Searles, for the sugar refiners OF
the East and st. Louis, protested
against the granting of the San Fran
cisco refners' petitions. The latter had
combined with the railroads to destroy
the business of st. Louis and Eastern
refiners at competing points.
Mr.. Taft, of Sutton'S Clipper
Line, maintained that the carrying of
goods at a loss for the purpose of driv-
petition and was not q thing which it
was desirable to encourage. There were
classes Of goods which the ships could
carry cheaper than the roads could pos
sibly do. The fight for this traffic
would not be competition at ALL 1t
would simply cause the determination
of the water carriers. To grant the
| prayers of the roads would be to destroy
| the purpose Of the law. He argued
that, the matters embodied in the petit
lions OF the trans-continental roads
were not within the scope of the fourth
section. He held that the special cases
referred to in the law in which relief
might be granted by the Commission
were cases where special classes Of
goods between particular points re-
quired departure from the general
mission, after investigation, might
grant relief. The railroad companies
were now engaged in trying to have
the law suspended. If they knew that
the law would not be suspended they
would be engaged in carrying out its
provisions III way to make them sue
ceSsful. He asked that the law be not
suspended in the general way asked
for, but that the roads be made to fix
fair rates, and he would like the privil-
eye Of examining witnesses to show
what would be fair rates. In reply to
Commissioner Shoemaker, he said
the railroad men would be able to ar
range their rates SO as to meet the
Canadian lines. They might be COM
PEELED to reduce along the line, but no
class of men knew better how to man.
age these things, and they would man
age them.
The Commissions inquiries are
framed with O view to affording a
ground work for the intelligent exami-
nation of Pacific Railroad affairs. The
questions will require some time before
H.
missioners will all leave for their
assemble in New York in week or
two.
A SUFFERER.
"a sufferer from Mankato, Mimi,
writes to the commission that for the
last five years the people Of that vicin-
ity have been paying their fares to the
conductor, thereby making a goodly
saving. Suddenly the conductors have
experienced a change Of heart and are
charging schedule rates, evidently fear
ing the effect of the new laws. He
asks the aid of the commission for a
return to the old system.
Several milling firms at AtchiSon,
KanS., complained that since the law
went into.effect they have been unable
to obtain any satisfactory settled rates
on the product of their mills, and con-
sequently they are obliged to suspend
their business except for the immediate
neighbOrhoOd, and should this state of
things continue they say it would work
ruin to the large milling interests of
that city. Surely, it was not in
tended, they added, "by our wise law
makers to bring ruin on the business
interests of the country. Can any
thing be done to bring relief? If SO,
grant it, that we may know whether we
will be able to do business or close up.
EN- ROUTE FOR WASHINGTON.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, April 21.-The re-
mains of Lieutenant John w. Danen-
hover were escorted to the IL O'Clock
train, enroute for Washington, by Off,
GERS Of the Naval Academy Band
Company, United States Marines, and
file of sailors acting as pail bearers.
Before the funeral train left the Acad-
envy there were services at the Naval
Chapel. No volleys were fired over the
remains.
GREATLY EXAGGERATED.
NEW YORK, April GA New Or
leans World special says: Commander
Green. of the ship Yantic, said the
matter of the British claim on Hayti
has been greatly exaggerated by the
newspapers, and that the particular
story of his protest against the British
action at Port au Prince had no foun-
| dation whatever.
DOSTONS BUSINESS
The representatives OF the various
business interests centering in Boston
were before the Interstate Commerce
Commission this morning. Judge
Soule, attorney of the Boston s. Albany
Railroad Company. said the route
taken by shipments to Boston was
! not the same as that to New York,
but was between sixty and one hundred
| and fifteen miles longer. OF course
% I,xr
the shortest line. There had grown up
large export trade in Boston, made
| possible by an arrangement with the
roads, which brought traffic at the same
rates charged by the New York roads
to that city. This trade made it posi-
bic to maintain line of steamers to
England, which line could not
be maintained without this traffic.
The local rate from the west to
Boston was also FIVE cents greater on
grain and certain like classes of pro-
duce than that upon the same merchan-
| disc intended for export. If the local
rates were charged on the export traf-
| fic it would kill it. Mr.. VIM. A. Lin
coin, agent of line of transatlantic
| steamers then addressed the
commission under oath. The
hardly appreciate the gravity of the
| question presented. The whole bust
ness of Boston was involved in this
matter, both local and export. This
| question was Of such importance that
he had cabled his people in Liverpool
| the day before leaving Boston to delay
the sailing of steamship which was
about to sail until it should be settled,
and he knew that other lines
had done the same. Despite
the equality of railroad rates
| in the past such were the other adyan-
tages of New York, that one half of
his company's steamers during the
year had been diverted to New York.
The through rate from Chicago to
Liverpool to-day Is less than the local
rate from Chicago to Boston. Chas.
H. North, packer, said that the export
packing trade OF Boston, amounting to